Horowitz Foundation Grants; Social Sciences 1622 views

Horowitz Foundation Grants are to support emerging scholars through small grants; to promote scholarship with a social policy application; to encourage projects that address contemporary issues in the social sciences.

Grant Amount

• Grants are based exclusively on merit.
• Each grant is worth a total of $7,500; $5,000 is awarded initially and $2,500 upon completion of the project.

Criteria for completion include:

• approval of the study
• acceptance of an article based on the research by a peer-reviewed journal
• invitation to write a book chapter based on the research

Note: Grants are non-renewable and receivers have 5 years from announcement of the award to complete their project and claim their final payment.

Eligibility:

1. Current Doctoral candidates who are working on their project.
2. Candidates who do not already have a PhD; those who do, are not eligible to apply.
3. Candidates must have defended their project proposal or had their topic approved by their department.
4. Candidates from any country and any university in the world may apply. U.S. citizenship or residency is not required.

Criteria:

• projects with a social policy application on either a global or local level
• feasibility, applicability, originality, methodology, theoretically informed or empirically rich research and letters of recommendation
• No specific weight is given to any one area.
• Proposals are evaluated based on overall merit of all aspects of the application.

How to apply

• Fill up application form 
• Two letters of recommendation (3^rd is optional)
• CV